Here's a list of recommended sites. Please add sites to this list that you have found useful.


Grants
Tech Learning - Funding

Teachers Network - Technology Grants for Teachers

Donors Choose


Curricular Resources/Activities
SMARTBoard Activities

Junior High Interactives

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Teacher Tube

http://www.watchknow.org/ Videos for teachers.

http://www.webquest.org/index.php

http://jeopardylabs.com/

http://think-bank.com/iwb/flash/halloweenpairs.html

http://classtools.net/

http://www.edutecher.net/links.php

Multimedia Tools

www.ViewLetCam.com record all elements of presentation including animations, transitions, voice narration, and video.

www.Prezi.com create animated presentations including text, image and video.

http://voicethread.com/ Web application that allows to post presentations and have people comment on them in all four formats:audio, image, video and text. Great for students interactions. Here is a Voicethread on how to build a Voicethread.

http://www.wix.com/ One of the easiest ways to build your own simple free website that can be used for variety of purposes.

Glogster Glogster, a multimedia collage making site

Voki Make animated character and use your own voice

Animoto Make photo or video collage

Bitstrips Make your own comic strip

Sync.in Neat wiki site -- free, no account needed -- students can edit page in real time, and you can see all of the revisions. This is ideal for a small group of students, as it got too confusing when all of my students used it

Jing This is the website to download jing. You can make videos of your screen with sound if you have a microphone and upload them to the web for free.

IPads/Mobile Devices

http://www.apple.com/education/apps/ provides Apple applications per content area

http://www.apple.com/education/ipad/ provides resources for IPad use (IPad can be borrowed for free for one quarter from IT services).


General Resources

Top 100 Tools for Teachers from The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. This list is based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide.


Communication /Classroom Connection Sites

EPals

The GLOBE Program

NASA Quests

MonsterExchange

Author Yellowpages


Internet Safety
ISafe.org

UC Libraries
Main Library Website
CECH Library
Off-Campus Library Access
UC SSL VPN - If you log in from off campus using the VPN, you can search Google Scholar. The results shown will be from UC Libraries.
Databases